On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:16:30 -0400 Bob Chiodini <rchiodin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not familiar with ethercap, but is anything else going on > network-wise while sendmail is sitting there? There is also a debugging > mode for sendmail, plus /var/log/maillog might tell you something. Thanks to both you and Andy for your very helpful replies. This is a fairly restricted mailserver. While it is reasonably busy, everyone other than me accesses his mail through Squirrelmail -- I am the only one that actually uses a mail client to handle my mail. While working through your suggestions, checking the configurations and writing an email detailing everything as I found it, it occurred to me that some of the application servers also send mail through the mailserver. (Status reports and the like.) So, I triggered one and watched what happened. To my surprise, it went through immediately. No pause at all. That was most interesting, so I sent myself a test email from my main desktop computer (this one) using email (http://email.cleancode.org/) and that went through immediately as well. That left my mail client as the source of the problem. I downgraded Sylpheed from 2.4.4 to 2.3.1 and the problem went away. Weird indeed. Especially since I have been using the 2.4.4 version of Sylpheed for the past month with no problems until just the other day. Sylpheed 2.4.4 still works fine with the sasktel.net mailserver which I believe runs on some sort of Sun gear. There is still an open question about why it worked for a month and nothing changed except for the fact that it stopped working. However, at least I know that there is nothing wrong with my mailserver, which was my main concern. And since Sylpheed 2.3.1 still works fine, I guess I'll just stick with that one for the time being. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
